Showit

An overview of how Showit & Wordpress work together for blogging via our blog explainer video.

How Blogging Works With Showit

Need help understanding SEO for your Showit blog? This doc will show you exactly where in your blog you can adjust SEO settings.

Showit Blog SEO

An in-depth look at your blog pages inside of Showit and how to properly configure them. A companion doc to our blog explainer video.

Configuring your blog pages in Showit

JT Pals

Kylen Downs

Keegan Lambert

Learn how to setup and customize your Showit Wordpress Blog

Building Your Blog

Learn how to customize your Wordpress Theme Design right in your Blog Template pages inside Showit.

Start Customizing Your Blog Design

The basics for understanding how to use Wordpress for starting a brand new blog or after migrating from a different blog service.

New to WordPress?

Make sure your photos are sized best for your blog

How to Optimize Blog Images

Learn how to request the Showit team to setup a blog for you.

Request a Blog Setup or Migration

Learn how to add a classic block to the Wordpress Gutenberg editor.

Adding Classic Block to Wordpress Gutenberg

Trevor Elcock

Blog Basics

Learn how to swap your blog template pages with a new design.

How to Change Your Blog Template

Use WordPress placeholders to create a section for readers to leave comments on your blog posts.

Create a Comments Section

Discover the many uses of this Blog template canvas option!

Post View Lookup Canvas

Change how links are formatted in a blog post.

Adjust Link Format in Blog Posts

Setup social icons so your readers can share a blog post.

Add Social Sharing on Blog Posts

Remove all spacing between images in a blog post

Remove the Spacing Between Images in Blog Posts

How to link to categories in your blog design

Link to a Category

Learn what this blog setting does and how to best use it in your Showit blog.

Hide This Canvas on Pagination [Blog Setting]

Learn how to make sure that your blog posts all show and that they are not duplicating.

Why are my Blog Posts Duplicating?

Jeff Willems

Kylie Stull

Customizing the Blog Design

Learn what this blog setting does and how to use it in your Showit blog.

Show this canvas once per page [Blog Setting]

Learn the pieces that make up your blog template and how to customize those pages in Showit.

Overview of Creating a Blog Template

Learn the settings and parts used to build a blog template

Blog Template Settings

This article details the function of the various wordpress fields that are found in your blog template pages

Wordpress Template Placeholder Fields

Settings for side-by-side layout for a blog post list template

Create a Side-by-Side Blog Layout

Learn how to create a section of featured or recent posts to highlight for your readers on your blog.

Create a Featured/Recent Posts Section

Create a Page Template

How to add a Blog Category template to display a list of posts within a selected category.

Create a Blog Category Template

Create a Blog Sidebar

Learn how to incorporate a search bar on your blog

Create a Search Bar

Setup custom Blog Template pages in Showit to display your blog content.

Creating Custom WordPress Pages (Advanced)

Create a WordPress Homepage

Creating Blog Templates

Troubleshooting tips and proper settings for your live blog.

Live Blog Troubleshooting

Learn how to get related posts automatically shown at the bottom of posts

Add Related Posts at Bottom of Posts

Learn how to add a tiled style gallery in a Showit blog post

Add a Tiled Style Gallery in a Blog Post

If your blog post content is cut off on the single post view, these troubleshooting tips will help you fix it.

Blog Post Content Cut Off

Using Your Blog

A simple trip to help with blog design troubles

Blog Design Troubleshooting

Some simple CSS code you can add to your templates to remove default WordPress settings.

Blog Formatting with CSS (Advanced)

Invite a designer or content expert to edit your blog via an account you create for them.

Sharing Advanced Blog Access with Contributors

Create a backup file of your WordPress data or use this method to export your content to a new host.

Export WordPress

Need Something Else

Makes Pinterest Pins hover when moused over

Wordpress plugin Pin It Button on Image Hover and Post

How to use LearnDash for courses on Showit

Wordpress Plugin: LearnDash Course Builder

Speed up Wordpress blogging using Shortcodes, WordPress block editor.

WordPress plugin Shortcodes

Yoast, Akismet, Jetpack, Subtitles, Redirection, Pinterest, Contact Form 7 plugins and how they work with Showit

WordPress Plugin Hub

Easily manage 301 and 404 URL redirects to improve user experience and SEO

Wordpress plugin Redirection

Security, performance, management, SEO, stats, analytics, related posts

Wordpress plugin Jetpack

SEO king for your blog, Sitemaps, Pinterest PINS

Wordpress plugin Yoast

WordPress plugin Contact Form 7

ARVE corrects sizing for YouTube and Vimeo videos for your blog posts

Wordpress plugin Advanced Responsive Video Embedder

Wordpress plugin Smush

Do you use the Narrative blogging platform? Here are instructions on how to use it with your Showit blog.

Narrative + Showit

Adds the Author name, Avatar and social links to your blog posts

Wordpress plugin Simple Author Box

Learn about what plugin works best for a custom pinterest icon on your blog post images (Advanced Blog Hosting)